Legal Opinion
Otero County Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. New Mexico Public Service Commission
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided May 31, 1989No. 17831PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BACA, Justice.
Otero County Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Otero) appeals a decision of the New Mexico Public Service Commission (PSC or Commission) which held that demand metering was neither just nor reasonable and should be discontinued. We affirm the Commission’s decision.
Demand Metering
The issues in this case are whether a particular method of billing (demand metering) is fair to those utility customers who are paying a premium, and whether the utility could have been required to prove the fairness of this method of rate assessment as part of a larger responsibility to prove the…
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